I started my path in the international development field during my first year of university, working as an intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Venezuela. My experience alongside Colombian refugees in my country opened my eyes to the stark reality of displacement and war. Ironically, my country faces a similar situation nowadays. Venezuelans represent the highest rate of migrants and refugees in the Americas. More than 4 million have left the country since 2016; an…

Very Famous The Wire's this Story has quoted me saying that Hon HRD Minister Shri Ramesh Pokhariyal had quoted from one of my articles establishing Scientific Importance of "Sanskrit". I have to say Hon Minister is right,though I did not hear what he said during convocation of IIT-Mumbai but I can prove what I wrote in Internet Society's Colorado Chapter perhaps in 2012 that Sanskrit is not only Computer Friendly than other languages but its a perfect language to others. Not only this…

Today is India's Independence Day.Early in the morning and while addressing the nation from ramfort of Red Fort-one of largest red brick fort in India built by Mughal Emperor Shahjahan Narendra Modi presented a blue print plan for nation. This is his sixth consecutive address to nation on Independence day.His address lasted for more than one and half hour.When a…

How Pakistan and India's Opposition Political Parties are reacting on removal of Article 370 and 35 A

1- Chidambaram calls it monumental blunder. 2- Gulam Nabi Azad calls it Article was incorporated in presence of Sardar Patel. 3- Mehbooba says India has taken out Jinn from Bottle without knowing how to put it back in bottle. 4- PoK protests. 5- Pakistan Army calls an emergency meet tomorrow.
6- Pakistan calls special joint session of parliament…

The most important instrument to use where politicians are to be encourage to be more systematical, effective as well as more committed, is by incoporating this initiative. By allowing this ideal initiative into operation in a country,more less developed state will enhance the desired developmental goal.

The political and social contracts are to be drawn each time an election is due.This means that all such person ought to be or must be made subject to this process conditional term…

On the European continent, the modern Romanian state is the posterchild for undercutting pressures in civilizational tectonics, a picture that Samuel P. Huntington so hauntingly laid out in his post-Cold war portrayal of the “clash of civilizations” thesis. Built at the confluence of Ottoman, Habsburg and Russian Imperial borderlands, Romania’s trifold cultural heterogeneity resonates still and parlays into current social-political divisions and governance…

These days, more and more experts have shown they’re highly interested in the current relationship between the Both Sides of the Taiwan Strait. Not only because I’m a Taiwanese, but because this issue includes a ton of common problems that will occur in the international relations. For example, relations between Taiwan…

People say that in the age of Mediatization ,a Jouranlist is governed by self regulation.Read some principals a Jouranlist should have in his/her dairy.

Principles of Journalism

The first three years of the Project’s work involved listening and talking with journalists and others around the country about what defines the work. What emerged out of those conversations are the following nine core principles of journalism:

Today on June 7,2019 when Uttar Pradesh's Chief Minister Mahanth Yogi Aditya Nath is visiting Ayodhya to inaugurate a 7 feet tall idol of Lord Ram made in Kannada Sthapatya Shaili in Tulsi Smarak Bhavan,its timely to know about wheather Lord Ram really existed or not. A country which is home to billions of Gods Ram still remains in…

If I ask you that you flashback your memory to June 4,1989,do press on your cerebral card what you you were doing and which part of India,China or world you were. I had just passed my 9th Exam in a sleepy town of Ayodhya but that does not mean I was not aware what was happening in world as was my nature. Everyday I rode my bicycle full one hour in advance to reach my uncle’s house on street of Ayodhya from my village to have tea and read news papers before departing for school.…

The Robert J. Myers Fellows Fund supports and promotes activities of the Carnegie Council network that embody Mr. Myers' vision of effective ethical inquiry rooted in local experiences and communities. This year…

Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs is pleased to announce the appointment of Ambassador Jean-Marie Guéhenno as Senior Fellow. During his two-year fellowship, he will be working on a book tentatively titled The Second Renaissance: In Search of a New Balance Between the Individual and the Collective.

Zambia today is undergoing diverse challenges in the areas of economy. The reasons are that most of the focus, time and support has had been given to politicians. And most issues are replaced with political considerations. Instead of focusing on the professionality of people who qualify in those governmental offices as well as those people who are deserving empowerment.

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The highlight of the Fall 2019 issue of "Ethics & International Affairs" is a roundtable on "Economic Sanctions and Their Consequences." Other topics include human rights and conflict resolution, Afghan attitudes toward civilian wartime harm, the role of supererogation on the battlefield, and the ethics of not-so-civil resistance.

Ahead of the Climate Strike rallies on September 20, Bard College's Brian Mateo discusses the Climate Reality Project, founded by Vice President Al Gore, and how it has informed his work regarding environmental activism and education. Why has Greta Thunberg's Climate Strike been so successful? How can protests turn into concrete policies?

A draft of a new presidential directive on American foreign aid suggests that transactionalism will shift from being a rhetorical device to an actual defining principle. How will the continued departure from the pre-2016 bipartisan consensus impact the foreign aid community?

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